Club confident track will be on budget

A harness racing club in central western New South Wales says it is confident plans for a new facility will be within the $5 million budget.

The Bathurst Harness Racing Club has secured land in the Mount Panorama precinct to move its operations, which are currently at the showground.

The chief executive, Danny Dwyer, says the preliminary plans include a new 1000 metre track, grandstand and stables

He says the club hopes to lodge an application with the council by the end of the month.

"We can actually see now where the tracks going to be situated, where the grandstand will be located, and the stabling complex," he said.

"So that's all coming to fruition and things are changing very much every day with the design but we're fairly confident that a fair bit more will happen through the rest of February to get it to the stage where we can possible put a DA into the council."

Mr Dwyer says plans for the new track, grandstand and stables should be finalised this month.

"It's not too far away and we're actually looking at some designs and getting now down to some real costs and ensuring that we can fit it into the budget of $5 million that we've been allocated and that's certainly at this early state looks quite possible."